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Ph.D.

Yale University, New Haven, CT

• GPA 4.0/4.0 (All Honors)
• Advised by Prof. Chi Liu and Prof. Nicha Dvornek
• Thesis prospectus "Inter-frame subject motion correction for dynamic PET using deep learning methods"

B.S.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• GPA 3.75/4.0 (88.15/100), Ranking 4/56
• Major in Biomedical Engineering, Minor in Music
• Undergraduate thesis "Image Segmentation and Fusion Methods for Brain Surgery Planning", advised by Prof. Jun Zhao

Image Analytics Intern

Siemens Healthineers, Malvern, PA.

• Weakly supervised abnormal texture segmentation for interstitial lung diseases (ILD)
  • Expanded Self-supervised Equivalent Attention Mechanism (SEAM) for the high heterogeneity of ILD lesions.
  • Introduced an adaptive background thresholding strategy for the brightness differences in activation maps.

Undergraduate Research Intern

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

• Low dose CT denoising by generative adversarial network (GAN)
  • Incorporated sharpness detection into the generator and achieved better performance handling streak artifacts (PSNR = 35.30).
• Analyzation of Denoising Network Responses
  • Analyzed the impulse response and disc response under different attenuation coefficient values.
  • Tested the learning pattern by phantom and real CT image datasets and examined the sensitivity threshold of lung nodule radius through simulation.

• Yale Conference Travel Fellowship (CTF)
• MICCAI NIH Participation Award
• Chinese American SNMMI Third Place Young Investigator Award

• IEEE MIC Fourth Place Christopher J. Thompson Best Student Paper Award
• IEEE MIC Trainee Grant
• MedHacks FastForward U Sponsor Prize; Track Prize Finalist (Top 5)

• Yale Ph.D. Fellowship
• Outstanding Graduates of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Top 5%)

• First-Class Academic Excellence Scholarship of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Top 2%)